Some days, you could just use a margarita.
Homemade Li Hing Margarita
Tag Archives: Plums
Evolution of Dessert: Sake-Poached Asian Pears with Ume and Li Hing Sauce
What was I thinking?!
Sake-Poached Asian Pears with Ume and Li Hing Sauce
It all started when one of my friends emailed me the link to the Pear Recipe Challenge at Santana Row. Basically, people enter a recipe using pears, and 5 of them would be chosen to present their recipes before a panel of judges (one of the judges is going to be FoodGal, Carolyn Jung) at the Pear Festival at Santana Row on October 19. The winner would get a cookbook, a restaurant gift card, a shopping spree, and their name in lights, (well, okay, their name on the SR website…close enough). It got me thinking because I recalled seeing this amazing picture of a poached pear in "Working the Plate" by Christopher Styler and wanting to do a poached pear myself.
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Peach and Plum Granitas: The Easiest Way to Deal with Summertime Bounty
You’ve had it with making peach cobblers and plum preserves. Your coworkers are saying, “no thank you” to your offered bags of ripe fruit. You look out your window and sigh at all the fallen fruit underneath the trees, but just don’t have the heart anymore to go out and collect them. You secretly wish you had knocked off half the fruit when they first started growing in the Spring.
Now what are you gonna do?
Plum Granita and Peach Lime Ginger Granita
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